The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire.
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... heavy cirro - strati and electrical clouds . Rain commenced falling . Thunder in S.W. , louder than before . Vivid flash of lightning with thunder , after an interval of 7 or 83 , from a cloud about the zenith : clouds are coming up ...
... Hard Rain Falling is a hard-boiled juvenile-delinquent novel, and then a prison novel, and then a dark Yatesian novel of existential marital despair, and just about ... Hard Rain Falling in Dorset, in a wonderful 49 more baths less talking.
... Hard Rain . " 2 A hard - hitting rain , a rain that kills and destroys ? Or , perhaps , the " hard " rain is like the ... falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain , just a little rain What have ...
... rain stopped them in their tracks. The stick bugs couldn't hold on and slid right off the cats. The hard rain lasted ... falling hard it took Oscar's sharp ears to hear a new sound and he shouted a warning. “Mom, what's the roaring sound ...
... Hard Rain Falling and thought it made two masterpieces in a row. The suggestion given by the dust jackets of the two books—and the move from the Northern California bildungsroman of Hard Rain Falling to the entertainment industry ...
... heavy rain commenced shortly before this obser- vation . Overcast ; rain still continues . Overcast ; rain ceased at 5 " . 40m . A few clouds here and there ; hard wind . Nearly cloudless ; hard wind . Cloudless . Cloudless . Cloudless ...
... Rain falling. Nothing but rain. You're still out there on the mound, holding the ball, running your fingers down the ... hard rain that beckons the ground crew, the obit writers and the gravediggers. It's the hard rain that pulls the ...
... Hard Rain Falling rode into camp leading Jessee Hauvone's horse with Jessee's lifeless body draped over its back . Dried blood streaked both sides of Jessee's face . Men , women and children followed Hard Rain Falling to Buffalo Horse's ...
